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Gallina's closed-door testimony concerned four top Genovese family gangsters: New Jersey's Vincent Gigante, John DiGilio, Salvatore Briguglio and Tommy Principe. The FBI considers all four to be prime suspects in ordering .22-cal. murders. Gallina told the grand jury how the Genovese leaders moved racket money into real estate in upstate New York...
...Travel," Lawrence Durrell once wrote, "can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." It is an elegant thought. Aside from fiction, travel is also Durrell's chief literary racket, and he is wonderful at it. His travel books arrive like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend- the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves. One evening in Sicily, he could look from his hotel balcony and "see the distant moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight...
...incident was a new twist in one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S.: computer crime. It has grown from nothing 20 years ago to a $300 million annual racket today. With financial transfers increasingly taken over by electronic data-processing (E.D.P.) systems, the prospects for future swindles appear limitless. Says Philadelphia FBI Agent Michael Boyle: "This is the crime of the future...
...funny moments-is about race, sex and religion. Until the ABC censors got wind of it, the show's writers had plotted Father Flotsky's seduction in church by Corinne, then an exorcism for their baby. The priapic tennis pro may still be killed-with his racket-stringing machine-after one of his love matches...
...bottom, breaking in as a senior thug's driver, bodyguard or shylock debt collector. He earns about $20,000 a year, in the form of cash from his boss, a salary from a phantom job in a Mob-infiltrated business or a share in the proceeds of a racket. If his superior approves, the new man can start some minor enterprise of his own?loan-sharking, bookmaking, labor racketeering. If he demonstrates a taste for violence, business acumen and organizational skill, he will rise rapidly...